December 14 in History

Historical Events on December 14

1819 Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.

1902 The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

1939 Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.

1941 World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand.

1963 The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.

1994 Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

2003 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.

2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

2013 A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.

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Famous Birthdays on December 14

1901 Henri Cochet

1947 Dilma Rousseff

1960 James Comey

1979 Michael Owen

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Famous Deaths on December 14

1799 George Washington

1943 John Harvey Kellogg

1947 Stanley Baldwin

1989 Andrei Sakharov

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